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Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1171.neque or nec on page 1171
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neque, nec nor
neque, nec is a Latin Conjunction that primarily means nor.
Definitions for neque, nec
Wheelock's Latin
Conjunction
- 1
and not, nor
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Conjunction
- 1
FORMS: the choice between neque or nec was often conditioned by considerations of eupohony, but nec tended to become more common and prevailed, esp. in colloquial writers such as Petronius. In the the longer sections exx. are separated.
- 2
(arc. as simple neg., usu. in form nec) Not (in late Latin mostly restricted to a few set formulas, or comps. such as necopinans, necopinatus.).
- 3
Not..either. (b) not even.
Sentences with neque, nec
Latin to English
Mihi nunc nōn crēdunt, neque umquam duōbus fīliīs meīs crēdere volent.Compare They do not trust me now, and they will never be willing to trust my two sons.
Neque vērō Caesarem fefellit, quin ab eīs cohortibus ... initium victōriae orīrētur.Compare Nor was Caesar wrong in thinking that the beginning of his victory would arise from those cohorts.
Nec dominam iubeo pretioso munere dones: parva, sed e parvis callidus apta dato.Compare Nor do I bid you give your mistress costly gifts; let them be small, but choose your small gifts.
Linquenda tellus et domus et placens uxor, neque harum, quas colis, arborum te prater invisas cupressos ulla brevem dominum sequetor.Compare The earth we need must leave, and house and wife of our choice; nor of the trees which you tend shall any save the hated cypresses go along with their short-lived master.
Ipsa quidem Virtus sibi, solaque late Fortunae secura nitet nec fascibus ullis erigitur plausuve petit clarescere vulgi. (Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodor Consuli, I)Compare Virtue is its own reward; alone with its far-flung splendor it mocks at Fortune; no honors raise it higher nor does it seek glory from the mob's applause.
Hic est ille situs cui nemo civis neque hostis quibit pro factis reddere opis pretium.Compare Here lies a man whom neither fellow citizen nor foe can ever properly repay for his exploits.
Neque materia multitudo arbor deficio possum.Compare Nor could timber fail by reason of the great number of trees.
Aruns morior, nec diu maneo superstes filius pater.Compare Aruns dies, nor does the father long remain to survive the son.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 71.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1171.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 119.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "neque, nec (conj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 26, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/neque-nec.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 71.neque, nec on page 71
